Abstract

This article presents new information on the distribution of a number of alien species of weevil beetles in the European part of Russia. For the first time populations of Otiorhynchus porcatus (Herbst, 1795), O. asphaltinus Germar, 1823, O. pseudonothus Apfelbeck, 1897, and Pholicodes inuratus Boheman, 1833 are found in Moscow. For the first time Lignyodes bischoffi (Blatchley, 1916) of North American origin is recorded for the Republic of Crimea, Krasnodar Territory, Kursk Region and Moscow, Orchestes steppensis Korotyaev, 2016 is recorded for the Republic of Dagestan, O. sulcatus (Fabricius, 1775) is recorded for the Pskov Region and Tver Region. In recent years a dramatic broadening of the secondary range of Polydrusus formosus (Mayer, 1779) in Moscow Region is established.

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